How do you feel about Facebook buying Instagram? Let's get poetical. Best metaphor gets an internet high-5 and an RT
1:51PM Mon, April 09 2012
@HishamAkhtar
Dublin
it's like Bambi's mothers died and had ads placed all over her.
1:56PM Mon, April 09 2012
@PlatesAreUs
Rochester, NY
On FB buying Instagram... it's like Coke buying Johnnie Walker Blue as a mixer. :)
1:56PM Mon, April 09 2012
@HogyokuHaiku
Facebook's new purchase / Has potential, if place in / The right person's hands #ModernDayHaiku #haiku
1:56PM Mon, April 09 2012
@Rachwani91
Sydney
It makes me feel the same depression I feel when I see ridiculously photogenic guy enter the bar. No chance for the little people.
1:56PM Mon, April 09 2012
@steven_pianelli
Switzerland
Hello I'm Instagram. I will be henceforth known as twenty of twenty. Resistance is futile. Also: Cheese!
1:56PM Mon, April 09 2012
@le_procyon
Zagreb, Croatia
As excited as when I learned of George Lucas' plan to remake Star Wars. Not very excited, that is.
1:57PM Mon, April 09 2012
@Jaim_C_V
Harlem World
they knew it was all down hill once it was released to Android users so shot the broken legged race horse
By shot I mean sold $$$
1:57PM Mon, April 09 2012
@GrajewskiFoto
Winnipeg, Manitoba
Facebook buying Instagram? "Old" news.
1:57PM Mon, April 09 2012
@SirHellsing420
All the world's on Instagram, & all the people were merely players, till Facebook surprised them by pulling them offstage.
1:57PM Mon, April 09 2012
@silverpeanut
it has single handed flooded the internet with repeating discoveries of it happening.
1:58PM Mon, April 09 2012
@claylevering
Hipster Photos
Douche in my time line constant
Great, there goes MY cred
1:58PM Mon, April 09 2012
@scofield123
Harare, Harare
they always say service will remain intact look at what became of Tweetdeck after twitter acquisition
1:59PM Mon, April 09 2012
@brianedwards
Facebook buying Instagram is like thousands of hipsters finding themselves in the middle of a Coldplay concert.
2:00PM Mon, April 09 2012
@cleverdesigner
45.023656,-122....
I'll never put Instagram on my Android FB. It's the same reason I'll never join golf clubs -a history of prejudice.
2:00PM Mon, April 09 2012
@fleezelhop
There was an app named Instagram
Til FBook gave it a slam
Hipsters are sighing
Screaming and crying
And Zuck couldn't give a damn
2:00PM Mon, April 09 2012
@NickGeyer
Charlotte, NC
Facebook buying Instagram is like Luke Skywalker buying a Darth Vader jersey. Money better spent elsewhere.
2:00PM Mon, April 09 2012
@Verius
Toronto, Canada
does this mean they'll need to change the name of the app to face-tagram? lol #sarcasm
2:00PM Mon, April 09 2012
@awequiteabit
Calgary, Canada
fb buys instagram//for 100millon x one grand//users 2 make a vid 2 take a stand//but only if there's a vintage filter for the cam
2:01PM Mon, April 09 2012
@TimBensman
Chicago, IL
Facebook is inviting the cool kid to come sit at their lunch table
2:01PM Mon, April 09 2012
@NoItsRoman
Somewhere in Manhattan
it's a fuck you from Sean Parker to Mitchell manningham
2:01PM Mon, April 09 2012
@Jaiter77
I Live In Americaland
Facebook is the arrow. Instagram the knee. #NotThisCrapAgain
2:01PM Mon, April 09 2012
@Thillbilli
Minnesota
#FB buying #Instagram is like adding a spoon of sugar to Fruit Loops. Sure, it tastes a little sweeter, but is it really necessary?
2:02PM Mon, April 09 2012
@engelsry
Facebook buying instagram is to the Yankees buying my hometown orioles and using them as their personal farm team #ihateit
2:02PM Mon, April 09 2012
@javier710
Miami
not its instalame
2:03PM Mon, April 09 2012
@marekvesely
Prague, Czech Republic
Facebook bought the grunge filters, there are tons of instant haters. We can expect old-school pics from the classy bathroom chicks
2:03PM Mon, April 09 2012
@DaFunkyMex
Fort Worth, Texas
Facebook buying Instagram is like Justin Timberlake buying MySpace. #WhoCares
2:03PM Mon, April 09 2012
@MikeAzzano
Vancouver
An Ode to
You made my photos pretty,
And then you needed money
Facebook bought you,
and there goes privacy
2:04PM Mon, April 09 2012
@RayusgnaL
Strasbourg, France
I feel like a cloud seeing a hurricane coming. Preparing myself to be ingested and to disapear...
2:04PM Mon, April 09 2012
@brianedwards
or maybe it's like Rolling Stone bought Pitchfork.
2:04PM Mon, April 09 2012
@JMCQ87
Berlin / Maastricht / Beirut
Feels like eBay buying PayPal. Feels bad, man.
2:04PM Mon, April 09 2012
@LuisMataPop
Ciudad de México
Finally digital mass photography will be destroyed. Only a few will survive.
2:05PM Mon, April 09 2012
@ginatrogdor
Cincinnati, OH
no metaphor. I freaking hate it.
2:06PM Mon, April 09 2012
@drummerhoff
Battlefield
it's like having sex with a supermodel then having to pull out right before orgasm.
2:07PM Mon, April 09 2012
@DaveVeeps
Wolverhampton(ish)
it's about as exciting as a cock flavoured lollipop! #InstaBook
2:08PM Mon, April 09 2012
@thenatepatrick
About the same level of excitement as when McCain selected Sarah Palin as a running mate. Should have a similar outcome too.
2:08PM Mon, April 09 2012
@d80buckeye
ÜT: 40.059532,-...
now what I know what it feels like to get one of those phone calls that ends with "you should get yourself tested" #Instagram
2:08PM Mon, April 09 2012
@Randumuse
I am a weak old ice-meme sandwich in the desert excited.
2:10PM Mon, April 09 2012
@adam_maba
on xbox Live ha
so now it's "Facegram" or "Instabook"?
2:10PM Mon, April 09 2012
@ArifCatalysT
Facebook buying Instagram to provide seamless integration between photos of your dinner and the people who don't want to see them.
2:10PM Mon, April 09 2012
@MacL615
Nashville, TN
Big Brother is pleased
2:11PM Mon, April 09 2012
@Alex_Corson
ÜT: 45.53418,-1...
Facebook buying Instagram is to Twitter buying Tweetie. the UI and support is destined to fail and the number of users will soar
2:11PM Mon, April 09 2012
@AntonNelson
London Area
F'd in the A
2:12PM Mon, April 09 2012
@jkxz
InstaFAILURE #FacebookBuysInstagram
2:14PM Mon, April 09 2012
@GreyCBK
London, UK
Facebook buying Instagram is like Björk doing a commercial for Coca Cola.
2:17PM Mon, April 09 2012
@Thefluuu
Charlotte
Now you can see pictures of Jesus and Dinnner at the same time. The Like Supper.
2:18PM Mon, April 09 2012
@justinwlacy
iPhone: 35.5969...
Oh Mark Zuckerburg!
Instagram is just not worth
One Billion Dollars
#haiku
2:21PM Mon, April 09 2012
@ZcharlesR
the #Instagram acquisition is like American Apparel being bought by Walmart - get ready for hipsters to start jumping ship
2:23PM Mon, April 09 2012
@CrazyVirusT
Surathani Thailand
money can buy everything even free App.
2:24PM Mon, April 09 2012
@recardona
Raleigh, NC
It's as if millions of hipsters cried out in terror...and were suddenly silenced.
2:27PM Mon, April 09 2012
@RevJGoodin
Bryan, TX
.@Gizmodo It's like that time your creepy uncle bought a new pair of binoculars.
2:28PM Mon, April 09 2012
@justinkoehn
I feel excited to know they will be taking a solid iOS app and ruining it like they did their own. The Facebook app is horrible
2:29PM Mon, April 09 2012
@SiDoxic
Mumbai
these rich kids buy fancy DSLRs and think they're photographers. Here's spotting one more
2:33PM Mon, April 09 2012
@playbeutiful11
Burke, Egypt
roses are red, Facebook is blue, Instagram and Facebook used to be two. It means that we're fuc*ked, the user who is me and you.
2:33PM Mon, April 09 2012
@meritwest
Minneapolis, MN
2:35PM Mon, April 09 2012
@isellcellstuff
Florida
I have neither a facebook account nor an Instagram account. So the purchase is fairly meaningless.
2:37PM Mon, April 09 2012
@eganomics101
I feel like International Pillow Fight Day was taken over by International Smallpox-Infected Blanket Fight Day.
2:39PM Mon, April 09 2012
@The_Real_The_R
ÜT: 18.017779,-...
Facebook will now literally be a book filled with faces. Mostly duck faces but faces nonetheless.
2:41PM Mon, April 09 2012
@Cedryc78
you know that feeling you get when you're pooping at school and people come up to your stall and mess with you to force you out?
2:59PM Mon, April 09 2012
@thekaanon
Southern California
Instagram is now like an indie band selling out for the money. Then again, "You know what's cool? A billion dollars is cool."
3:01PM Mon, April 09 2012
@chongcolin
Buying Instragram, Facebook adds hipster quilting and an extra ply to the toilet paper roll. Who doesn't enjoy extra plush tp?
3:11PM Mon, April 09 2012
@mkluis
1 bllion? They could have just downloaded it for free!
3:30PM Mon, April 09 2012
@osiris6251
noneya
Prolly just like Twitter acquiring TweetDeck. All bad.
3:59PM Mon, April 09 2012
@triangle_man
Austin, TX
how bout a haiku? "What do I care if / Facebook just bought Instagram? / I never used it."
5:18PM Mon, April 09 2012
@NicWoudstra
Melbourne, Australia
Instagram is clearly a jedi - the original paper based pics were not the polar-oids users were looking for.
5:26PM Mon, April 09 2012
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